![]() ![]() Though the questions about the gendered body that “Resisterectomy” seeks to address are complex, the elements of the exhibit are simple-portraits, a short film, medical reports, blog posts, and email exchanges. Sign up to get the Weekly Digest delivered to your inbox ![]() This is Chase Joynt and Mary Bryson’s “Resisterectomy,” a four-part multimedia installation that, in Joynt’s own words, “juxtaposes the narrative of trans sex-reassignment surgeries with the narrative of cancer surgeries-mastectomy and hysterectomy.” The show’s themes of resistance and sisterhood are combined to form the exhibition title. ![]() ![]() The central focus of the exhibit, however, is an eight-minute video playing on loop in the far left corner, split-screened between a man and a women, the two artists, identically clad in black T-shirts and talking against a white background. Around the room are transcripts of emails and blog posts, mounted on paper-thin decals or screens. To the left, an ethereal recording of a man and a woman in hospital gowns flickers on a television screen wrapped in fabric. Transparent mastectomy reports hang from the ceiling, with medical jargon studded through the blocks of diagnostic statements. Patrons move from one display to another in reverent silence, and there is a sense of eerie calm. The white walls and stark layout of “Resisterectomy” at the Gray Center have an almost clinical feel. ![]()
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